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Students in the second international public health nursing course, Bedford College, London

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Title

Students in the second international public health nursing course, Bedford College, London

Description

Alice Fitzgerald started the International School for Public Health Nurses for the Florence Nightingale International Foundation in London. Katherine Olmsted continued the work by organizing the second course at Bedford College at the University of London for public health nurses from all over the world.
Students in the second class are seated left to right, Marie Anzenbacherova, Czechoslovakia; Edith Webster, New Zealand; Masayo Tabuchi, Japan; Miss Margaret Tuke, Principal of Bedford College; Mrs. Reid, Director of Social Studies; Marianne Danko, Austria; Venny Snellman, Finland. Standing left to right, Elizabeth Deuchler, Mexico; Nora Moore, Canada; Margaret James, England; Boiana Christova, Bulgaria; Gizi de Hodossy, Hungary; Elsa Grivan, Latvia; Anna Erma, Estonia; directed by Florence M. Waters.
Waters (Church Home class of 1908) had briefly served as superintendent of the Church Home and Infirmary School of Nursing in 1910. She was part of the 1914 Mercy Ship expedition in Pau, France, served with Base Hospital 113 in France and assisted Fitzgerald’s work with the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva.

Creator

The Press Photographic Agency (London, UK)

Date

1922

Format

1 photographic print mounted on board : gelatin silver ; 12 x 8.5 in.

Identifier

Item 238635